Locomotive terminal



A. W. TOWSLEY AND S. OTIS.

LO COMOTIVE TERMINAL.

APPLlCATlON .FILED MAY 26,1921.

1 ,41 3,365. Patented p 18, 1922.

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A. W. TOWSLEY AND S. OTIS.

LOCOMOTIVE TERMINAL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1921.

Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

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A. W. TOWSLEY AND S. OTIS.

LOCOMOTIVE TERMINAL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, um.

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ALFRED W. TOWSLEY, OF EV ANSTON, AND SPENCER OTIS, OF EARRING-TON, ILLINOIS.

LOCOMOTIVE TERMINAL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED W. TOWSLEY and SPENCER OTIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Evanston and Barrington, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Locomotive Terminals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of and system for disposal of locomotives at railroad terminals incident to the replenishing of materials which they consume in use, cleansing them when desired, and repairing them when necessary; or, in short, subjecting them to any and all of the several treatments which are commonly resorted to in keeping them in proper condition for use.

The object of this invention is to so dispose of each locomotive, upon arrival at the division terminal, and during the time interval between leaving the service track and returning to an assigned track for renewed service, that it will without delay or hindrance arrive at a single stall or station so equipped with the various replenishing,

cleansing, and repairing facilities that the.

locomotive may, without removal therefrom or shifting from station to station, be subjected to any and all of the various treatments which it requires, and have all these treatments applied by the operatives simultaneously or in immediate sequence, thereby reducing to a minimum the time that the locomotive is withheld from service, and avoiding the expense incident to special crews for shifting the locomotive from place to place, and saving the time of the service engineer in waiting for an opportunity to turn in his locomotive and report upon the attention which it requires. Such a disposal or routing of the locomotive in the regular course of its procedure from the service track, through the terminal, and back to the assigned track for renewed service, as compared to the handling and routing now in practice, will increase the service hours of the individual locomotive to a very material percentage and correspondingly reduce the number of locomotives needed to sustain trafiic, and this in turn effects not-only a saving in the first cost of the increased locomotive equipment that would otherwise be required, but saves in the'extra cost of trackage and other incidentals required to care for such increase. 5

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

Application filed May 26, 1921. Serial No. 472,792.

terminal, and back to its assigned track for renewed service. It is taken first by the service engineer to a point near the ash pit where he surrenders it with his report of attention which it needs. It waits there until a hostler can take it to the ash pit for drawing its fires, and then move it to a point where it awaits its turn to enter the It is taken thence to a clean- It is then passed to watering, coaling, and sanding stations and is then ready to go to the roundhouse when it can gain admittance, and, having gained the roundhouse, it has its necessary repairs made and its boiler washed out and refilled if necessary.

According to the present invention the locomotive passes, immediately upon relinquishing its train, to a station where the fire can be drawn under conditions that will not interfere with other services upon the locomotive; where coal, sand, and water supplies maybe at once replenished; where its exterior may be washed when desired; and where its boiler may be blown off, washed out, and

the various treatments which are requlred to keep it in proper service condition, it is simply necessary for the service engineer to go to the treating station, make such inspection of his engine as he may desire under the favorable conditions of an enclosed house, and get into his cab and drive his locomotive immediately to an assigned track for resumption of service.

As an apparatus for facilitating the realization of this method of procedure, the station or stall to which the locomotive is immediately driven from the service track will be equipped with means for drawing its fire, furnishing all of its necessary supplies, and subjecting it to any other treatments such as cleansing, repairing, and washing out as may be required. If desired, the stationor plies, and the two positions at the station may be divided off by a partition. A live steam supply connected with a source outside of the locomotive will preferably be available at each station to promptly restore self locomotion to an engine after its fire has been withdrawn or before its renewed fire has restored driving pressure in the boiler.

The stations will be arranged in groups sufiicient in number to accommodate all of the locomotives of the division that may require treatment at any one time, so that no locomotive will be requred to wait until an antecedent locomotive gives up a station to admit it; and the fire drawing, supply replenishing means and other equipment will be so. proportioned in capacity as to adapt them to serve all of the stations in common.

In the accompanying drawings, in which two embodiments of the invention are disclosed by way of illustration Figures 1 and 2, are, respectively, a plan view and a vertical longitudinal section through a locomotive terminal constituting of an embodiment of the invention which involves a rectangular terminal house with trackage communicating with the stalls thereof.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

Figure 4 is a plan view of a roundhouse type of locomotive terminal in which the features of the invention are involved.

Referring to Figures 1, 2, and 3, 1 represents main line tracks and 2 represents a permanent terminal to which said tracks lead, and which encloses a series of locomotive stations or stalls 3 which will preferably be sufiicient in number to accommodate, simultaneously, all the locomotives of a railway divisionwhich may require treatment at any one time at the particular terminal so that no locomotive will be delayed in being restored to service on account of terminal station facilities. The stations 3 are adapted to be connected by transfer tables4 with spurs 5, 6, 7, and 8, which in turn are connected directly or through switches with main tracks 1, so that a locomotive may move from either main track to any one of the stations 3 in the house 2.

Located in the house 2 is a coaling apparatus 9 which is provided with individual spouts 10 located over or sufliciently near the respective tracks to adapt them to serve the tender or coal storage space which accompanies the locomotive. As shown .in the plan View of Figure 1, there are as many of these coaling equipments 9 as there are stations, but it is obvious that a single coaling element might be located between two tracks and made to serve a locomotive on either track. All the coal supply elements 9 will be kept filled through means of a traveling replenisher of some type, such for instance, as a car 11 which receives its supply from a bunker or other mainv storage space 12.

At some convenient point, also located in reach of each locomotive within the house, is an ash disposal means 13 which will have a chute 14 leading from between the rails of the track occupied by each locomotive and some means of disposing of the deposited ash and fire refuse, such, for instance, as a car 15 traveling upon track 16 that extends transversely beneath all of the fire-drawing stations thus established. In the illustrated arrangement the firedrawing stations are upon the transfer tables 4, and the ash is deposited through the space between the rails thereof.

Also located in the house 3 and within reach of each station is aseries of sanding elements 17 having spouts 18 through which they are adapted to supply sand to a locomotive standing on a'transfer table in line with any one of the station tracks. While we have shown the elements 17 and 18 in the form of hoppers with spouts located to deliver sand by gravity, it is obvious that this part of the invention may be substituted by any other means for delivering sand, such, for instance, as a flexible pipe through which the sand is conveyed by air pressure.

Referring to Figure 4, it will be seen that the stations 3 occupy the usual positions of tracks in the stalls of a roundhouse, access to them being afforded through means of a turn-table 19. The system here is otherwise substantially identical with that disclosed in Figures 1, 2 and 3 in the employment of coaling elements 9, 10, the replenishing element 11, and the bunker 12, but the fire drawing elements 13, 14 are located beyond the turn table and the 1000- motives stand upon fixed trackage when served by any of these elements.

In addition to the elements named, Figures 1, 2, and 3 show a means for keeping up the supply in the storage coal bunker consisting of an endless conveyor 20 beneath the hopper 21 which is kept supplied by elevator 22 leading from the dump 23 to which the coal is brought in standard cars 24.

The individual inclines 14 which discharge into the conveyor 15 will be in the form of watertight troughs adapted to receive a body of quenching and conveying water from spray pipes 25, and the conveyor 15 will be of a. construction that will permit surplus water to drain therefrom into a filter bed 26, whence it reaches the sump 27 so that it may be returned to the spray pipe 25 for reuse by means of pure 28.

In addition to tlie equipments enumerated, the several stations may be supplied with other facilities for working on a locomotive, such, for instance, as a portable washing apparatus 29 for washing the outside of a locomotive, and standard pipe equipment 30 for blowing off, washing out, and refilling the boiler. The last-named function, however, will preferably be performed in a separate room 31 equipped with b-lowofi', washout, and refilling pipes 32, and suitably separated from the coaling and fire drawing station by means of a partition 33. Among the pipes 30 mayalso be a live steam pipe 34 so that the locomotive may be transferred from the fire drawing stationto the boiler'treating Station 31 by delivering a sufficient head of live steam into the boiler from an outside source or render it self propelling when ready to leave the station and before its renewed fire has reestablished boiler pressure suflicient to propel the locomotive.

Several of the details herein disclosed are not of the joint invention of the present inventors and therefore no presumption of dedication will arise from failure to specifically claim the same.

We claim:

1. In combination with a locomotive terminal house having locomotive stations therein and trackage for directing locomotives from service to said stations and return, means at a station for receiving and disposing of fire drawn from a locomotive thereat, and means for simultaneously re ceiving and disposing of blown oft products from and washing out the boiler of said 10- comotive.

2. In combination with a locomotive terminal house having servicerestoring stations adapted to receive locomotives, means common to a plurality of stations for receiving and disposing of blown off products from locomotives thereat, a cinder disposal pit 10 cated beneath a plurality of said stations in position to receive fire refuse from such locomotives, and means for washing out the boilers of such locomotives while the locomotives are at said stations. v p

3. In combination with a locomotive terminal house, having stations therein, adapted to receive locomotives fro-m service, means common to a plurality of said stations for receiving and disposing of blown off products from locomotives occupying the same, a cinder disposal pit located beneath a plurality of said stations in position to receive fire refuse from such locomotives, and means for supplying water to said locomotives while at said stations. V

4:. In combination with a locomotive terminal house having stations adapted to receive a plurality of locomotives from service, means common to a plurality of said stations for receiving blown off productsfrom locomotives-occupying the same, a pit beneath a quantity suflicient to restore. the locomotive to the power of self propulsion.

6. In combination with a locomotive ter-' minal house, a station having trackage for receiving a locomotive. from service, a fire drawing means adapted to serve a locomo-'- tive while. in said stat-ion, and means for supplying live steam from an extraneous source to the boiler of said locomotive while occupying saidstation and'to develop within the boiler pressure sullic-ient to restore the locomotive to the power of self propulsion.

7. In combination with a locomotive terminal house, a station having trackage for receiving a locomotive from and restoring it to service, means for supplying fuel to said locomotive while in said station, and means for supplying live steam to the locomotive from an extraneous source while the. locomotive is in said station, and in quantity suflicient to restore the locomotive to the power of self propulsion.

8. In comb'nation with a locomotiveter minal house, a station having trackage for receiving a loco-motive'from and returning it to service, a fire receiving means adapted to serve said locomotive while occupying said station, a fuel supplying means also adapted to'serve said locomotive while occupying said stat-ion, and means for supplying live steam, fro-m a source extraneous to the locomotive, to the boiler thereof while in said station and in quantity sufiicient to restore the locomotive to the power of self propulsion.-

' 9..In combination with a locomotive terminal, a station having trackage for receiving a locomotive directly from service, and fire -*receiving means and fuel-supplying means located to treat such locomotive simultaneously while at such station.

10. In combination with a locomotive terminal, a station having a track for receiv- 11. In a locomotive terminal, a station rality the boiler having a track for receiving a locomotive directly from service, and fire-receiving and coal and water supplying means, all adapted to treat said locomotive simultaneously while at said station.

12. In a locomotive terminal, a station having a track adapted to receive a locomotive directly from service, fire-drawing and coal and water supplying means adapted to treat said locomotive simultaneously while occupying said station, and means for supplying live steam from an extraneous source to the boiler of said locomotive while at said station and in quantity sufficient to render it self propelling.

13. In a locomotive terminal, a station having a track adapted to receive a locomotive direct from service, and fire-receiving, fuel-replenishing and boiler cleaning apparatus all adapted to treat said locomotive while occupying said station.

14:. In combination with a permanent locomotive terminal house, a station provided with a track for receiving a locomotive directly from and returning it to service, and fire-receiving, boiler-washing, and fuel-replenishing means all adapted to serve said locomotive while occupying said station.

15. In combination with a permanent locomotive terminal house, trackage adapted to present the locomotive from service into said house and to return it from said house to service, means for receiving fire, means for washing out the boiler, means for replenishing fuel, and means for supplying to from an extraneous source steam suflicient to develop the power of self propulsion in the locomotive; all of said means being located to serve said locomotive while in said house.

16. In a locomotive terminal house, a pluof stations adapted to receive india common supply means adapted to deliver fuel to individual locomotives occupying such stations, and a common means adapted to receive fire refuse from a locomotive at any of said stations.

17 In a locomotive terminal house, a plurality of stations each adapted to receive a locomotive, coaling means common to all said stations, individual delivery connections interposed between said coaling means and the respective stations, a fire refuse container common to all the stations, and individual' locomotives,

vidual receiving means between said container and the individual stations.

18. A permanent locomotive terminal house, comprising a plurality of stations each having trackage adapted to receive a locomotive directly from service, means common to a plurality of stations adapted to replenish the supply of material to each locomotive occupying a station,means for receiving fire refuse drawn from a locomotive at any station, and a common refuse-conveying means adapted to serve all of said stations.

19. In a locomotive terminal, a plurality of stations each adapted to receive a locomotive, and each equipped for treating a locomotive While standing therein; said stations being alinecl so that a locomotive may be routed to occupy them successively in passin through the terminal.

20. n a locomotive terminal, aplurality of stations each adapted to receive a locomotive, and each equipped for treating a locomotive while standing therein; said sta- ,be routed to occupy them successively in passing through the terminal; and means being provided for partitioning one station from another to prevent the work in one interfering with that in another.

21. In a locomotive terminal, a plurality of alined stations through which a locomotive may be routed to pass successively, means located at one station for drawing fire from the locomotive, means located at another station for subjecting the locomotive to other treatment, and means for partitioning one station from another to prevent the work of one station from interfering with that of another.

22. In a locomotive terminal, a series of antecedent stations each adapted to receive a locomotive and equipped for treatment thereof, a series of secondary stations each of which is alined with a corresponding antecedent station and has equipment for subectmg a locomotive to a different treatment, and part1tioning means adapted to normally separate stations of the two series, but movable to pass the locomotive from an antecedent station to a corresponding succeeding station.

ALFRED W. TOWSLEY. SPENCER OTIS. 

